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Artist Statement:

"I am collaging historical maps fusing cartography and geometry to create new spaces and places that coax the brain to drift from the analytical to the sensory, and to delight in what is sensual, familiar, and universal. With the use of maps abstracted into pieces, my work becomes rich with metaphor, as both universal and personal meaning about ways of perceiving the known and unknown are explored, and notions of territory are revisited. The viewer can see the art objects as a collection of tiny map events or as an intact experience, as the work transforms what was into something new.

I stumbled across this idea as I was trying to develop ways to teach both math and art in my classroom. I was using a lesson plan created by the MET Museum of Art in New York to look at patterning and tiling of mathematics, MC Escher’s work, and perspective drawing. In my painting practice at that time, I was very interested in colour blocks and colour pallets. Serendipitously, my friends at Contexture Design were moving shop and had to get rid of their collection of maps. When I saw these maps with their beautiful colour palettes and textures I immediately thought I needed to tile them."

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Light installations by Pablo Valbuena

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Data Visualization is an art project that showcases famous paintings in a digital format; data. - By Yousuke Ozawa  "Art is now seen through google images or wallpapers. However, we are actually looking at a series of numbers and letters instead of actual paint. Through a generator I retrieved the codes of each paintings I found on google images and printed them out, framed and showcased them at a galleries in Tokyo."

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“Magritte with Hat” by Duane Michals, 1965, gelatin silver print 

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When video artist Bill Viola was 6 years old he fell into a lake, all the way to the bottom, to a place which seemed like paradise. "There's more than just the surface of life." Viola explains. "The real things are under the surface".

American Bill Viola (born 1951) is a pioneer in video art. In this interview, Viola talks about his development as an artist and his most important breakthroughs. As a child Bill Viola felt that the world inside his head was more real than the outside word. Viola discovered video in 1969. The blue light from the first camera he experienced reminded him of the water in that beautiful lake he almost died in when he was 6.

The first video piece Viola did on his own was "Tape I" from 1972, when he was still at university. Viola replaced the university art theories with his own secret underground path, through Islamic mystics, to Buddhism, to Christianity and finally to St John of the Cross. It was a very liberating experience for him, when he first started calling his artworks what they actually were to him.

Viola once felt that home videos should be kept separate to his artwork, but the sorrow of his mother's death, and the difficulty of understanding this transition from life to "disappearance", slowly changed his point of view. He realized that things could not be kept separate. Viola now sees the cameras as keepers of the soul, he explains. The medium holds onto life, a kind of understanding of feelings, keeping them alive.

Bill Viola was interviewed by Christian Lund, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, in London, 2011.

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Simetry in Wes Anderson's movies.

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- Ma tu che lavoro fai? - Io? Io sono ricca. - Bellissimo lavoro.

// Paolo Sorrentino

- La Grande Belleza

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"I would gif you everything"

La galerie Le Salon accueille la première exposition parisienne du travail de Natalia Stuyk, artiste multimédia basée à Londres. Auteure de nombreux gifs et vidéos, elle a travaillé pour des marques de modes comme House of Holland ou Kenzo, et réalisé des clips pour Basement Jaxx et Roses Gabor. 

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Colorful installations made from spices by Naz Shahrokh 

Naz Shahrokh currently lives and works in Abu Dhabi, UAE. She was born in Tehran, Iran in 1969, she spent her childhood in Paris, France, and adolescent years in Los Angeles, CA. She received a BFA and an MFA in Painting, and an MS in Art History from Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, where she later taught Fine Arts and Art History from 1998 to 2008. She joined the faculty at the Performing and Visual Arts Department at the American University in Cairo, Egypt in 2004-2006, and recently joined the Art & Design Department at Zayed University, Abu Dhabi, UAE in 2008.

Past exhibitions of her work include the Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY; The Rotenda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; The Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, Colorado; the Alexandria Library in Alexandria, Alexandria, Egypt. Past awards for her work include the Change Inc. (the Rauschenberg Foundation) Grant, Captiva, FL, and the Artist-In-The-Marketplace Fellowship, the Bronx Museum, Bronx, NY.

Her work has been reviewed in the New York Times, TimeOut Abu Dhabi, the Connecticut Post, the Advocate and Greenwich Time, Contemporary Practices and ART PAPERS, and is included in private and public collections internationally.

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La Pointe Courte (dir. Agnès Varda - 1955) Persona (dir. Ingmar Bergman - 1966) Love and Death (dir. Woody Allen - 1975) Mulholland Dr. (dir. David Lynch - 2001)

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Damien Hirst & Alexander McQueen Collaboration 

To celebrate the 10th anniversary of McQueen’s iconic skull scarf, 30 limited edition designs have been exclusively produced and are available from November 15th.

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Greenland Reflections Michael Quinn

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// Sebastien Tellier

- L'Amour et la Violence 

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Au début de ma détention, pourtant, ce qui a été le plus dur, c'est que j'avais des pensées d'homme libre.

//Albert Camus

- L'Étranger

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Onionlab, a multi-disciplinary studio based in Barcelona, created this 3D projection mapping project for the 2013 Mapping Festival. 

About the project:

Onionlab presents Evolució, a piece that revolves around the graphic and sound abstraction of the concept it is named after: evolution. It is construed as transformation, construction and alteration of reality through time; evolution as a discontinuous creation process as well.

Created with 3D projection mapping techniques, this time, Evolució was projected onto the façade of the Musées d’art et d’histoire de Genève, though the piece takes the evolution concept even further: It was conceived as an open transformation process so that it can also be adapted to different façades and projection surfaces, and so that Evolució can continue its transformation process.

You can watch the whole display in this video:

Evolució by Onionlab / Mapping Festival 2013 from onionlab on Vimeo.

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EMPTIED GESTURES BY HEATHER HANSEN

LA, New Orleans-based Artist Heather Hansen (tumblr) - "Emptying Gestures is an experiment in kinetic drawing. In this series, I am searching for ways to download my movement directly onto paper, emptying gestures from one form to another and creating something new in the process."

Photos by Bryan Tarnowski